User perceptions of library effectiveness in Malaysian agricultural libraries

Library Review

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 176-186

  Majid, Shaheen ^a,b   Anwar, Mumtaz Ali ^c   Eisenschitz, Tamara S ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Customer satisfaction; Library users; Malaysia; Research organizations; User studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986097746     PISSN: 00242535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00242530110390451     Document Type: Article

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